Bread-raising and clothes-drying device.



No. 648,379. I Patented May I, I900. A. BENNETT.

BREAD RAISING AND CLOTHES DRYING DEVICE.

(Application filed Feb. 14, 1900.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE BENNETT, OF BREWER, MAINE.

BREAD-RAISING AND CLOTHES-DRYING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent NO. 648,37 9, dated May 1,1900. Application filed February 14, 1900. Serial No. 5,119. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, ANNIE BENNETT, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Brewer, Penobscot county, State of Maine,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bread Raising andClothes-Drying Devices, of which the following is a specification.

In families where bread is made at home it is the common custom toprepare the dough at night and set the mass in a warm place to riseuntil morning, when it is baked into bread. It is usual to place thevessel containing the dough at the side of' the cookingrange to receiveheat therefrom, and in practice difficulty is experienced in keeping thedough at an evenly-warm temperature, as is necessary to promote therising of the dough. This is particularly the case during the wintermonths in houses where thefires are allowed to die down and go out sometime in the night, as the dough cannot be kept at uniform temperature,the part thereof occupying a space farthest from the cooking-rangebecoming cold, thus delaying and stopping the complete rising of themass.

The object of this invention is to provide a device especially adaptedto keep dough for making bread at an evenly-warm temperature to promoterising.

The invention is carried out by providing a device having one or moreshelves adapted to be suspended above a cooking-range and constructedand arranged to support a vessel containing dough, so that said vesselwill be enveloped and completely surrounded by warm air rising from saidrange, which will remain warm and continue to radiate heat for aconsiderable time after the fire has gone out and will keep said vesseland dough contained therein at an evenly-warm temperature and facilitateand promote rising of the mass. The shelves of the device are adjustablevertically and may be movednear to the surface of the range, where theair is heated, or raised considerably above the surface thereof, wherethe air is cooler, and said device may be provided with hooks andextensible shelves or racks and is adapted as well for use as aclothes-drier, as will be explained.

The drawing represents the device as it appears ready for use, suspendedabove a cooking-range.

The letter or represents the lower shelf or rack of the device, whichmay be made of stiff wire and formed substantially rectangular in shape,having several intermediate strengthening-wires a running lengthwise,said shelf a adapted to support articles placed or hung thereonas,'forexample, a breadpan. (Not shown in the drawing.) Side shelves or racksZ) 0, similar in form andconstruction to said shelf a, are provided andmovably attached thereto, and said side shelves 1) o are extensiblelaterally and may be drawn out'or extended, as shown in the drawing, tohang clothes or other articles upon to dry, and when not in use saidside shelves b 0 may be moved in out of the way to a position as shownin the drawing. Said shelf a, is supported above'the cooking-range d bysmall chains or cords e, which depend from screweyes e, secured in theceiling of the room. Said chains or cords e are preferably attached tothe corners of the shelf a by loops e in said chains e, the ends ofwhich are pro vided with hooks 6 adapted to hook into rings e attachedat intervals to said chains 6, so that said shelves may be suspendednear to the surface of the ranged, where the air is heated, or raisedconsiderably above the surface thereof, where the air is cooler, .byshortening or lengthening said loops e as will be readily understood byan inspection of the drawing. A shelf f, upon which articles may be hungto dry, may be provided, similar in form and construction to said shelfa, and said shelf f may be secured in a position directly above saidshelf a, and in practice, if desirable, said side shelves b 0 may beextensibly attached to said shelf f in lieu of being attached to saidlower shelf a. At convenient intervals along said chains 6 hooks n areattached, upon which clothes or other articles may be hung to dry.

I claini- V The combination with a cooking-range d of a combinedbread-raising and clothes-drying device, consisting of skeleton shelvesa, f arranged one above the other suspended above said cooking-range d,intermediate strengthening-bars arranged lengthwise said shelves a, fadapted to support vessels and to receive scribed.

clothes hung to dry, extensible side racks b,- c 'Signed by meat Bangor,Maine, this 9th attaehed toeneofsaid shelves a, chains deyrefFebrnary,A. D. 1900; 3 having loops e? and hooks e for adjustably I suspendingsaid shelves at, f and hooks n atl v e cached to saidchains 6 adapted toreceive Witnesses: clothes hung to dry substantially as de- WM. B.PEIRCE,

' 1 v v 1 HARRY O. ROBINSON.

: ANNIE Y BENNETT.

